This article, originally from the Wall Street Journal,
explains how government entitlements grow larger over time, and only drastic action allows them to be trimmed. This
article gives personal
experience by a labeled "hater". If they keep this up, "hate" will no longer be considered a bad word.

Here is a great
article about a
non-profit that labels other non-profits with which it disagrees as hate groups. Maybe someone needs to label them as a hate group, or
maybe we can all agree that labeling people and groups is counterproductive, and in some ways hateful itself.

Don't get me started on the condescending "The Hate Has No Home Here" lawn signs. Suffice
it to say that if their goal is to alienate people, they are effective.

Update: Another article about the problems with mislabeling
things we don't like.

This excellent blog by
Megan McArdle does a deft job of explaining the employment challenges facing men (which I have covered
previously).

First, she discusses the decline of male-dominated jobs and the rise in female-dominated "nurturing" fields. While she admits that men's
and women's abilities have a normal distribution, there are clearly cases where the average woman's skills exceed the average man's, and
visa versa. These average differences can't be dismissed as solely from socialization, e.g. rhesus monkeys. She then questions the
future employment impact of these gender tendencies.

This is one of those "what we want vs. reality" cases — if you are going to analyze a problem, you have to address it
realistically, not basing it on what you want reality to be.